OnBoard Audio Performance

[sppsr]

I use the Asus P4T5300-C board but this can go for other boards as well, In the old days when you had onboard audio you suffered a performance hit because the onboard audio shared duties with the cpu. Is this still the case?? Never a mention in reviews about this.
Everyone use the audio feature or do you disable it??
Don.

 

[Vette73]

Most on-board sound will use some CPU cycles but it really only took a hit when people were using 800mhz CPU's or less.

Now with 1ghz DIRT cheap and a Athlon XP 1800+ for less than $99, it does not really matter now.

I use a 5.1 C-Media sound card that is built into my Shuttle AK35GTR, the sound is great and does not really affect performance.

 

[sppsr]

Thanks for the response.
Don.

 

[BarMan]

Marlin1975 is pretty much right but personally I wouldn't look at
the C'Media onboard chipset, it's a good chipset but not great.
The AC'97 onboard chipset is much better. I've noticed a lot of
differences in overall problems and vid-capture quality (my
main hobby). Overall the onboard chipset performance is so
low now with current CPU's that you won't tell the difference though.